build: turn on thin static archives #7957
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Looks like the SmartOS machines still have issues with the thin archives? |
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You have got to be kidding me... I bet everyone at Joyent still has a mullet too. Workaround added for crummy old smartos. New CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/3516/ |
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I wonder if this will help the arm builds finish faster....that would be nice :] @bnoordhuis are there any downsides to this change? |
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You can't just copy the .a files around anymore and expect it to work, you need the .o files too now. |
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i'm +1 on this but the smartos bit is a concern. Can we reasonably do this on all other platforms and make that one an exception? (the Joyent comment is a bit inappropriate fwiw) |
I did that six hours ago in the fix-up commit... did you look at the diff? |
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Missed the additional commit! |
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CI is green. Can I get a LGTM or two? |
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Awesome! I completely forgot about this. LGTM. |
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LGTM |
Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume we can drop support for that now - except on SmartOS, where the tooling still has a distinctive vintage feel to it. Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% - and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble 50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer copied around. PR-URL: nodejs#7957 Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume we can drop support for that now - except on SmartOS, where the tooling still has a distinctive vintage feel to it. Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% - and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble 50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer copied around. PR-URL: #7957 Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@bnoordhuis I've backported this to v4.x please let me know if it shouldn't land |
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Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume we can drop support for that now - except on SmartOS, where the tooling still has a distinctive vintage feel to it. Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% - and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble 50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer copied around. PR-URL: #7957 Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume we can drop support for that now - except on SmartOS, where the tooling still has a distinctive vintage feel to it. Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% - and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble 50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer copied around. PR-URL: #7957 Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume we can drop support for that now - except on SmartOS, where the tooling still has a distinctive vintage feel to it. Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% - and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble 50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer copied around. PR-URL: #7957 Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Thin archives were disabled in 2012 as a workaround (IIRC) for obsolete
tooling on one of Joyent's platforms. The last binutils versions that
didn't support them was released in 2007 so I think it's safe to assume
we can drop support for that now.
Thin archives save space - it shrinks the size of PRODUCT_DIR by 30% -
and speed up the final linking step because it doesn't have to assemble
50 MB of static archives (twice! - first to create the archive, then to
copy it to PRODUCT_DIR). The archives are just 3.5 MB now and no longer
copied around.
CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/3515/